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Upon this the Cardinal advanced and proposed to surrender the prisoner, provided the Parliament would promise to hold no more assemblies. They were going to consider this proposal upon the spot, but, thinking that the people would be inclined to believe that the Parliament had been forced if they gave their votes at the Palais Royal, they resolved to adjourn to their own House.
If you are off in some distant part of the world and suppose that nobody who lives within a mile of your home is anywhere around, there are times when you adjourn your ordinary standards. You say to yourself: "Well, I'll have a fling this time; nobody will know anything about it."
"I'm sore all over from poling that clumsy old boat up-river. And once I hit the straw you'll never hear a peep from me till morning." "Move we adjourn!" sang out Toby, so suddenly that he actually neglected to stammer. "All in favor say 'Aye'!" Max proceeded to observe; and immediately a chorus of approval was the signal to send them hurrying into the tent.
The genuine humility of the hard old man touched his tempestuous little heart. "It's it's all right, Du your Grace. I'm sorry I spoke that way, too." Baron Dangloss twisted his imperial vigorously. "My lords, I suggest that we adjourn. The Prince must have his ride and return in time for the review at one o'clock."
No corporation can scale him down ten, twenty, thirty, or fifty per cent. when times are hard; it takes the Congress of his country to do that; and when, as once happened, Congress did adjourn without appropriating a cent for our pay, the whole army stood by its obligation, because it knew the people would stand by it next term.
We might as well adjourn." "Not yet," demanded Shirley hastily. "Keep your seat. The show has now reached the second act. Let's sit it out." It was Shirley who stood up as Carson resumed his seat. "Our family was always reticent. We avoided publicity; didn't want Mister John Q. to know about our affairs.
"I fancy that, after the party in the mess room has broken up, several of them used to adjourn to Sanders' quarters; and it was there that the great bulk of the money was lost." "What a fool Gordon has been!" Lindsay said. "What a madman! Such a good fellow, too! "Well, of course, nothing can be done.
Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law and paid out of the treasury of the United States.
"Goils," she remonstrated, "this ain't no way to act. Say, Miss Masters," she went on, "I guess the whole lot of us is out of order now. What would you do about it if you was me?" "I should suggest," Miss Masters answered, "that the motion to adjourn be carried and that the whole club go into committee on the question raised by Miss Meyer."
There was some joiners' work to do in the first classe, some bench or desk to repair; holidays were often turned to account for the performance of these operations, which could not be executed when the rooms were filled with pupils. As I sat solitary, purposing to adjourn to the garden and leave the coast clear, but too listless to fulfil my own intent, I heard the workmen coming.
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